French Search Market Nearly Monopolised By Google

French Search Market Nearly Monopolised By Google

An 89.7% market share reach makes Google a near monopoly in the French search engine market. In spite of numerous attempts by the government and the EU council to combat Google’s meteoric rise in popularity, the search engine has conquered the population of France more effectively than any other market.

Yahoo! trails far, far behind at a distant second place with 3.14% market share, followed by MSN at 2.48%, Orange at 1.89% and Free.fr at 0.72%. The remaining 1.99% is distributed among many smaller search engines as well as the likes of AOL, Ask, AltaVista and Lycos.

The research published by XitiMonitor, a French web survey Institute, was based on a study of 84,108 websites during the period July 1 to 31, 2007.

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